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Adult Learners鈥 Week, runs from Saturday May 11 to Friday
May 17.
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sees thousands of events nationwide celebrating adult learning
and is a great opportunity for people to turn lifelong ambitions
into reality.
+ Adult Learners鈥 Week is celebrating its 鈥淭en Years On鈥 anniversary
in 2002 with more chances than ever to take part.
+ This year the week also leads people into a month long opportunity
to take a 鈥楤ite Size鈥 chunk of learning through May and June.
+ There will be events in town centres, shopping centres,
libraries, pubs, schools and colleges.
+ Festivals, taster classes, street theatre and roadshows
will give everyone the opportunity to get a taste for learning
at a time, pace and place that suits.
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See
for details of Gloucestershire adult learners events. Alternatively
pop into your local college, library or adult learning centre,
or 0800 542 1655 to find out more.
Email 蜜芽传媒 Gloucestershire at :gloucestershire
@bbc.co.uk
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Salim
Kholwadia鈥檚 father arrived in Gloucester in the late 1950s and became
the first Asian to settle in the city, and Salim takes great pride
in his assertion that he was the first Asian to be born in Gloucester.
However,
his experiences at school were less than heart warming.
Salim
recalls: "In those days teachers didn鈥檛 think Asians could achieve
very much so I was not encouraged 鈥 I did not reach my full potential.
"From
then on, I knew I would have to work twice as hard to prove myself."
I knew I would have to work twice as hard to prove myself.
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Adult Learner award nominee Salim Kholwadia. |
Salim鈥檚
ambition was to become a civil servant, but it took years of hard
work at evening classes to get the qualifications he so desperately
needed, eventually building up an impressive list of GCSEs in English
Language and Literature and a host of qualifications in computer
skills and office technology.
He
achieved a BTEC NVQ Level 2 in Administration and most recently,
the European Computer Driving Licence.
His
determination eventually led him to his dream job, working for HM
Customs and Excise in Gloucester.
Very
soon he made his mark, devising new strategies to cut down on paper
bureaucracy and saving time and costs.
His
innovation and dedication was rewarded when he received the MBE
from the Queen for services to his employer.
For
an extremely modest man, Salim could not have hoped for more a public
recognition of his achievements.
"I
am a devout Muslim and believe very strongly that I should do the
very best I can at all times to help people as much as possible,"
he says.
"It
has taken me many years to get the job I wanted. I applied for hundreds
of clerical jobs and didn鈥檛 even get an interview."
But
Salim, who spends much of his spare time encouraging and supporting
friends and family in his community in their quest for learning,
says: "A good Muslim learns to be patient."
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